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Vasai Rath Yatra 2014

We take great pleasure to cordially invite you along with the members of your family, friends and well wishers for JAGANNATH RATH YATRA FESTIVAL - 2014 @ Vasai, the festival of chariots.

Originated thousands of years ago in Jagannath Puri, Srila Prabhupada organized the first Ratha Yatra in the western world in 1967 in San Francisco.Since then this festival is being celebrated all over the world.
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Today is Vasant Panchami, the first day of spring. Spring is considered to be the best of all the seasons. Different varieties of colorful flowers of various shapes and sizes swarm the earth in this season. The multicolored surrounding exudes sweet fragrance calling people to enjoy the beauty of God’s beautiful creation. The day becomes more beautiful when devotees offer gorgeous garlands prepared by these flowers to Radha and Krishna and bathe them with flower petals and colorful leaves.  The

Prabhupada: No, actually we are pledged to give something substantial to the human society. This is our mission. We are not that group, that showing some magic and take some fees and... It is not our business. We have got so many literatures full of treasurehouse of knowledge. We have to distribute that. Not bluffing, showing magic or this or that, miracles. No. We are not this. It is an institution for giving knowledge to the human society. The first beginning of knowledge is that at the presen

Hare krishna mataji!

PAMHO

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Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Sri Guru Parampara and all devotees everywhere!

Due to recent events, I put together this ritual to be used for psychic protection, to banish negative entities and energies, and can also simply be used to create a sacred space around you. It uses the Nityananda, Gauranga, and Hare Krishna mantras, as well as parts of the Nrisingha Kavacha. This ritual can be done anywhere at any time that you may feel like ther

Hare Krishna,dear devotees!

this is to announce that we have a new gosala in Mauritius,where 30 cows,including 5 under 6 months,at Bellerive,near Dubreuil-2 kms. These cows were saved by a devotee named Shyam Krsna das and his wife and it has 10 acres of land. The plan is to make a self sufficient farm,by planting organic veg and fruits that will generate income,as the cows dont give milk-thats why they were on the slaughter list! We appeal any cow lover to view this video appeal from Shyam krsna

Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam by Vedavyasapriya Swami on 30 Dec 2013 at ISKCON Vrindavan
(Srimad bhagavatam Canto 05, Chapter 01, Text 26)

(His Holiness Vedavyasapriya Swami Maharaja, born in an Audichya Sahasra Brahmana family on 1st August 1944 in the town of Kadod, Gujarat, India, on Sravan Sud Dwadashi, also celebrated as Pavitra Dwadashi, that follows Pavitraropana Ekadashi.)

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Lecture on Active Principle for Advancement in Spiritual Life by Sachinanadana Swami on 25 Dec 2013

(Sacinandana Swami shared many of his insights in his books: "Nectarean Ocean of the Holy Name", "The Gayatri Book" and "The Way of the Great Departure".)

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Lecture on Disciple Please don't Cheat by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 26 Jan 2014

(His Holiness Bhakti Vikasa Swami appeared in this world in 1957 in England. He joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in London in 1975 and was initiated in that year with the name Ilapati dasa by ISKCON's founder-acarya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.)

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TEXT 26

sukla-krsne gati hy ete 
jagatah sasvate mate 
ekaya yaty anavrttim 
anyayavartate punah

SYNONYMS

sukla--light; krsne--darkness; gati--passing away; hi--certainly; ete--all these; jagatah--of the material world; sasvate--of the Vedas; mate--in the opinion; ekaya--by one; yati--goes; anavrttim--no return; anyaya--by the other; avartate--comes back; punah--again.

TRANSLATION

According to the Vedas, there are two ways of passing from this world--one in the light and one in darkness. When one passes

Lecture on The Culture of Srimad Bhagavatam by HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami on 13 Dec 2013 at ISKCON Pretoria

(Originally from New Zealand, Bhakti Caitanya Swami joined the Hare Krishna movement in London, early in 1973. Almost a year before, as a philosophy student at Auckland University, he had first seen his future spiritual master walking across the campus with his followers. Srila Prabhupada initiated Bhakti Caitanya Swami later in 1973, giving him the name Raghubir Dasa. )

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Our senses if untrained and uncontrolled behave like a serpent ever ready to bite us. We mostly suffer because we fail to control our senses but remain controlled by it. For e.g. if one does not control ones speech and is loudmouthed then sooner or later one will face the music. Or else, if a person always remains absorbed in satisfying ones taste buds then from morning to night one will be busy looking for palatable foodstuffs.  The problem is that the more we walk the extra mile to act as per

"Time is called kala--past, present and future. What is now present, tomorrow will be past, and what is now future, tomorrow will be present. But this past, present and future are the past, present and future of the body. We do not belong to the category of the past, present and future. We belong to the category of eternity. Therefore one should be concerned with how to attain or how to be elevated to the platform of eternity. The developed consciousness of the human being should be utilized not

"According to the Vedic teachings, anyone who does not accept the Vedic way of life, he is called atheist. Therefore, according to Vedantists, Buddhists are called atheist. Actually Buddha philosophy does not accept God, neither soul. They simply philosophize on the material elements, and they want to finish the material exis..., dismantle the material elements. Nirvana. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu has remarked that the Buddhists are honest. They frankly say that "We don't accept your Vedas." But the

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Suffering from many mosquito bites, I went into the washroom where I felt I had been bitten, and foolishly killed many mosquitoes.  My conscience then told me that perhaps I had done wrong.  I went and inquired from Srila Prabhupada.

"You should not kill them.  They are poor creatures.  It is better to prevent them from biting by using a net."

"But in the washroom, how can I use a net?"

"It is better still not to kill the

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

The nature of a Vaisnava is that he wants to give Krsna Consciousness to everyone. So each devotee should chant the holy name and spread the glories of the maha-mantra to everyone, and that is preaching. A Vaisnava preaches because he is concerned. A  Vaisnava , having a spiritual mission, tries to guide blind people to the path of spiritual advancement.

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

We are all more or less proud of our past Indian civilization, but we actually do not know the real nature of that civilization. We cannot be proud of our past material civilization, which is now a thousand times greater than in days gone by. It is said that we are passing through the age of darkness, the Kali-yuga. What is this darkness? The darkness cannot be due to backwardness in material knowledge, because we now h